2 Tone Top of the Pops

 

Here's something that I was looking to put together for a long time. The 2 Tone flame burned brightly and intensely... but only for a short time. But in those months across 1979 to 1981 it seemed that the world had turned monochrome, at least for a significant section of record buying teenagers.

This collection of appearances from the UK's long running chart related TV show, Top of the Pops, is not entirely complete. There were more than one appearance of some of the tracks e.g. 'Gangsters', some songs went beyond 1981.... The Beat's 'Can't Get Used To Losing You' and of course Special A.K.A.s 'Nelson Mandela'. Nevertheless, it is a good representation of the 2 Tone genre.

'We don't need no British Movement

Nor the Ku Klux Klan

Nor the National Front

It makes me an angry man'

DVD image: https://we.tl/t-fNhZZsQRCD

Artwork: https://we.tl/t-tx2AR7s55R

Terry says 'Ho Ho Ho!'